carrier
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈkɛrɪər/
- Specialized
:
portador
- You're still a carrier of the disease to others.
- asymptomatic carriers
- carriers of disease
- virus carriers
You have been a virus carrier for it.
- You have been a virus carrier for it.
- So the question is when you're BSCA mutation carrier, will the treatment be altered?
- But the, the actual protection has been shown with carrier status.
- Well, I went to visit him and I was a carrier of Ebola.
- We're trying to discern the state of someone's health, whether they are a carrier or not.
- The third piece of diagnostic testing that was required before doing any sort of IUI or IVF at my clinic was a carrier screening, A genetic carrier screening.
- And you know, we have so much more success in sort of giving folks who have this strong carrier mutations a chance.
Examples
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We didn't know what percentage of people were asymptomatic carriers of the virus.
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Soon after, the role of P. vannamei as a carrier of the virus was recognized.
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And if your child is a carrier, my child will die, right?
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Such animals become lifelong carriers that can spread the disease to others.
Academic text (1994) -
-He's a carrier of the disease.
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We're trying to discern the state of someone's health, whether they are a carrier or not.
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Asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever.
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Rats are the carriers.
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ANYONE OF US COULD BE A CARRIER!
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Many people can be carriers of the flu virus without showing symptoms, unknowingly spreading the illness.
Synonyms
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6.2
An organism or thing that carries and spreads disease and genes between living things
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6.2
An animal or microbe that spreads disease to others
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7.6
A person, animal, or thing that spreads disease to others
A person or animal who carries a disease without feeling sick but can infect others
A person or animal that carries a disease and can spread it to others
A person or animal who spreads a contagious disease to many others because they have many germs
Compounds
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3.8
A very large war ship with a long flat deck where military planes take off and land
- Specialized
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5.3
A military vehicle with metal protection that carries soldiers safely
- Specialized
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6.1
Radio wave that carries information when its strength, rate, or timing is changed
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2.8
A player in football or rugby who holds the ball and tries to move forward to score
- Formal
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3.7
A person or company that carries people and goods for the public and must pay for any loss and damage
- Specialized
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6.6
A light military truck that carries weapons like mortars or machine guns and their crews
- Specialized
A way to separate substances on filter paper using electric current to study them
- Formal
A company that sends data for the public and must treat all messages the same
- Specialized
A big military ship with a long flat deck that carries and launches fighter planes
- Specialized
A person who carries bricks and mortar to bricklayers at a building site
- Specialized
A person or animal who carries a disease without feeling sick but can infect others
How Infectious
- Specialized
- Specialized
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6.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
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5.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carrier comes from carry, which means to hold or move something from one place to another. In medicine a carrier is someone who quietly 'carries' a disease or gene and can pass it to others even if they feel well.